Kitchen Garden - HAMPSTEAD HEATH - 2013

THE KITCHEN GARDEN ~

The Kitchen Garden (now used as a nursery) is to the left of the path that leaves Hampstead Lane, between the East Lodge Gate and the Nursery and Orchard.

Today, this is a pleasant and colourful area with many flowers and shrubs but, in the old days, it would have been a source of herbs, vegetables and salad plants and roots.

The unique sundial (see pictures below) is of great interest.

The south-facing flued wall at the north boundary and the west and east walls remain but the eighteenth century glasshouses were demolished in the twentieth century.